This feature, based on the text initially submitted as part of my final project for the MA in Cultural Journalism in the University of Westminster, is written in conjunction with Phil Ruthen, with contributions from Simon Jenner, Sally Richards and Steve Mann.
The article appeared on May 2009 in “A life in the day” (Volume 13 Issue 2), a quarterly journal published by Brighton-based Pavilion, a publishing, events and information services company that focuses on the social care and health markets.
Excerpt: Survivors’ Poetry was established in 1991 by four major poets who had first-hand experience of the mental health system.
The current CEO of Survivors’ Poetry, Simon Jenner, describes the national charity’s main aim as promoting poetry and
associated literary arts ‘by and for survivors of mental distress’ and to play a part in enabling recovery.
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